Starburns_
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It’s worse. Cause they play clubs from both conferences, so all it does it limit who can play finalists. Making finals in conference A is going to be a lot harder than Conference B. If Freo beat Brisbane at home, and Carlton lose. Both better than 50:50, 8 wins to conference A and 2 wins to conference B after 2 rounds.
Yes, but the point of conferences is that you're not competing directly with the teams in the other conference for a finals spot. If conference B is weaker, they'll get found out come finals time.
It'll make more sense next year when there's less cross-conference games to confuse matters.